Department for Transport written question – answered at on 9 October 2018.
Jim Cunningham
Labour, Coventry South
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of road accidents involving telegraph poles or road signs in Coventry since 2010.
Jesse Norman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The number of reported accidents where a ‘road sign or traffic signal’ or ‘telegraph or electricity pole’ was recorded as the first object hit off carriageway for a vehicle involved in the accident in Coventry for years 2010 to 2017 is given in the table.
Reported accidents by first object hit by vehicle(s) off carriageway, Coventry, 2010 to 2017 | |||
Year | Road sign or traffic signal | Telegraph or electricity pole | Road sign/traffic signal or telegraph/electricity pole1 |
2010 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
2011 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
2012 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
2013 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
2014 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2015 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
2016 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2017 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
Source: DfT Stats19 | |||
1. Accidents can involve both a road sign/traffic signal and a telegraph/electricity pole for different vehicles | |||
Yes2 people think so
No0 people think not
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